David Thewlis Biography
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David Thewlis (born David Wheeler March 20,
1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England) is an English actor.
Thewlis studied at the Guildhall School of
Drama in London. His first major film role was as the rambling street
philosopher Johnny in Naked (1993; dir. Mike Leigh), for which he was
named best actor by the New York Film Critics Circle, the National
Society of Film Critics (United States), the London Critics Circle, the
Evening Standard, and the Cannes Film Festival. The same year he
appeared on television as the sexual predator James Jackson in Prime
Suspect 3, opposite Helen Mirren and Ciaran Hinds.
Through the 1990s, Thewlis appeared in a
variety of films, mostly fantasy and period, including Restoration
(1995), Total Eclipse (1995) with Leonardo DiCaprio, Dragonheart (1996),
and Seven Years in Tibet (1997), opposite Brad Pitt (because of this
film, Thewlis is barred from entering China). He was nominated for a
British Independent Film Award for Divorcing Jack (1998), and played
Clov in a (2000) television film of Samuel Beckett's Endgame. Notable
appearances also include Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged (1998) and Paul
McGuigan's Gangster No. 1 (2000), opposite Malcolm McDowell. In 2004 he
starred as Remus Lupin in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (dir.
Alfonso Cuaron) a role he is due to reprise in the fifth film in the
series Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and appeared in Ridley
Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and Terrence Malick's The New World
(2005).
As a director, he was nominated for a BAFTA
for best short film for Hello, Hello, Hello (1995); he has also written,
directed and starred in the feature Cheeky (2003).
In 1992 he married director Sara Sugarman;
they divorced in 1993. He is currently living with the actress Anna
Friel. Their daughter Gracie was born on 9 July 2005 in London, England.
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Selected Filmography
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
(2007)
The Omen 666 (2006)
Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction (2006)
The New World (2005)
All the Invisible Children (2005)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
(2004)
Timeline (2003)
Gangster No. 1 (2000)
The Miracle Maker (2000) (TV) (voice)
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)
Divorcing Jack (1998)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Dragonheart (1996)
James and the Giant Peach (1996) (voice)
Restoration (1995)
Total Eclipse (1995)
Black Beauty (1994)
Prime Suspect3 (1993) (TV)
Naked (1993)
Life Is Sweet (1990)
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (1990) (TV)
Little Dorrit (1988)
The Singing Detective (1986) (miniseries)
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